Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Transforming Agri-Food Systems from Production to Consumption
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2026 | Viewed by 2307
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Interests: rural geography; regional geography; post-productivism agriculture; rural tourism; gastronomy; landscape’s perception
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Dear Colleagues,
Traditionally, agricultural spaces have been interpreted in economic terms as production spaces in which the agri-food component prevailed. In recent decades, the countryside, first in the most technologically advanced countries and then in the rest, has been transformed, ceasing to be a space specialized, almost entirely, in food production to become a multifunctional space where consumption activities are increasingly important. At the same time, cities, unlinked from agricultural activity in the last hundred years, seem to be rediscovering part of their links with the agrarian world that has always sustained them. These circumstances are conditioned by global change that affects all areas and actors involved in agri-food systems. It is in this context that the recent trends that advocate the creation, reinforcement, or rediscovery of local food must be framed.
This Special Issue seeks contributions that show the latest advances in this field from a multidisciplinary perspective (from Geography, Economics, Sociology, and Social Sciences in general). Contributions that have a transdisciplinary approach and those that generate spaces for dialog between the natural sciences and the human sciences will also be welcome. Some of the topics that could be included are as follows: challenges and uncertainties of primary production of local food, transport, and last mile issues; role of sellers’ and merchants’ attitudes in local food promotion; contradictions in consumption; conceptualization of local food; local food governances; ecological footprint of local foods; relationships between local agriculture and the city; local husbandry and consumption; local foodscapes; local food and tourism; case studies; etc.
Dr. Xosé Antón Armesto-López
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new local agri-food models
- proximity food
- ecological footprint
- ethical consumption
- urban and periurban agriculture
- marginal agricultural areas
- local food ethical issues
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